The second son sent someone to assassinate the eldest son, and Queen Xiao, as a mother, can imagine the pain and anger in her heart, but she didn't want the second son to be severely punished because of this incident, and at the same time she didn't want to believe that this matter was true.

Yang Guang had his own thoughts, he shook his head, and said, "I know this matter in my heart. ”

He glanced at Yang Xuan and said, "Come here, bring in Zhou Cheng." ”

After a while, several guards brought Zhou Cheng, who still had half a life left, into the imperial study, and Zhou Cheng knelt on the ground when he came in and didn't speak.

"Your Majesty, who is this person?" Empress Xiao asked suspiciously.

"This person is Zhou Cheng, the captain of the city guards, and he also participated in the assassination of Zhao'er the day before yesterday." Yang Guang sighed in his heart and said, if it weren't for the fact that the evidence and motives showed that the second son sent someone to assassinate the eldest son, he didn't want to believe that such a thing would happen to his two sons.

"Zhou Cheng, if I ask you, if you answer truthfully, I can let your relatives go, otherwise I will punish your three clans." Yang Guang said coldly.

Zhou Cheng said in a hoarse voice, "Your Majesty, may I ask." ”

Yang Guang asked, "Let me ask you, who instructed you to assassinate the crown prince?" ”

Zhou Cheng said: "The criminal minister was ordered by the king of Qi to assassinate the prince. King Qi said that as long as the crown prince died, he was His Majesty's only son, and he would definitely become the crown prince, and he would become the emperor of the Great Sui in the future, and he would make me a general, so the criminal minister took the risk to assassinate His Royal Highness the prince, and begged His Majesty to spare the life of the criminal minister's relatives. ”

"You talk nonsense!"

Yang Xuan suddenly roared hysterically, when had he been so wronged, and roared angrily: "I didn't, I didn't say these words to him, and I don't know him!" ”

He pointed at Zhou Cheng and roared angrily: "You say, did I buy you?" ”

Zhou Cheng lowered his head deeply and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness...... Weichen had to recruit for the sake of his relatives, and asked His Highness not to retaliate against my relatives, otherwise I would not let His Highness go if I was a ghost. ”

"Nonsense!"

Yang Yun was so angry that he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his boots, pounced on Zhou Cheng, and roared: "You dare to wronged me so much, I want to kill you bastard!" ”

The sudden change made the inner hall exclaim, to meet the emperor, only the direct royal family does not need to search his body, but no one thought that the king of Qi actually had a dagger on his body, and several guards wanted to pounce on it, but it was too late, he stabbed it into Zhou Cheng's chest, and the latter was already seriously injured, and with a flutter, he fell directly in a pool of blood and died on the spot.

Yang Xuan suddenly came to his senses, he actually used a knife to kill in front of his father and mother, and his heart was suddenly terrified, he released the dagger and smashed it to the ground with a clatter.

Yang Guangtie walked up to Yang Jun with a blue face, and raised his hand to slap Yang Jun hard, knocking Yang Jun to the ground.

"Rebel, dare to kill in front of me!"

Yang Yun fell to the ground trembling, and Yang Guang said coldly: "In addition to the human evidence, other evidence was also found in Zhou Cheng's house. ”

Yang Guang opened a box presented by the Blue Guard's Mansion, and still took out a letter and a few notes from it, and shouted: "This was found in Zhou Cheng's house, it was an order you wrote to him, and you also told this person to burn it after reading it, but this person stayed, and I also personally compared the handwriting of your rebel, and your handwriting is the same, what else do you have to say." ”

As Yang Guang spoke, his angry gaze shot at Yang Yun, his teeth clenched.

Yang Jun was completely stunned, his eyes showed a look of fear, he suddenly cried loudly, knelt on the ground, his head banged, his heart was grieved and aggrieved to death, crying: "Father, the son is really wronged, the father is clear, the son is really wronged." ”

He suddenly knelt down in front of Queen Xiao again, hugged his mother's legs and cried: "Queen Mother, the child has been wronged, you save the child!" ”

Empress Xiao's eyes flashed with tears, and she gritted her teeth with a look of hatred and said: "Who instigated you to send someone to assassinate your own brother, I will send someone to thoroughly investigate your mansion, and I will definitely cut all the young people in your mansion with a thousand knives." ”

Yang Guang no longer paid attention to Yang Yun and Empress Xiao, and let the mother and son speak, he got up and left the imperial study with his hands behind his back, came to the lake bridge thirty steps away, and silently stared at the scenery of the small lake outside the imperial study, thinking about the open and secret struggle between himself and his brother when he was the prince, and then thinking about his two sons killing each other, at this moment, Yang Guang's lonely figure, in this vast palace, under this heaven and earth, seems so small and so desolate.

At this time, footsteps sounded behind him, and Yang Guang said unhappily: "You still have to intercede for this son." ”

Empress Xiao said: "The concubine is indeed here to intercede with Xuan'er, he is the child of the concubine, and after all, he is the son of His Majesty, I hope Your Majesty will not punish him too harshly." ”

Yang Guang sighed and nodded, "Don't worry!" He is my son, I will not kill him if I regenerate his anger, the tiger poison does not eat the child, I have my own measure. ”

Empress Xiao slowly walked behind Yang Guang and asked in a pleading whisper, "Your Majesty, what are you going to do with Xuan'er?" ”

Yang Guang didn't answer her directly, but turned around and asked lightly, "You hate Wang Junlin very much, right?" ”

"I can't talk about hating him, I just don't like him very much, and I don't like outsiders to get involved in our family affairs."

"What about Zhao'er? I feel that you are disgusted with him, and if he dies, you will not take it to heart, right? Yang Guang still asked quietly.

Empress Xiao was stunned, she slowly knelt in front of Yang Guang, her eyes widened, and she said with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, how can you say that, although I prefer to be a little bit younger, but Zhao'er is my flesh and blood, and it is also my heart, how can I hope that he will die, Your Majesty, how can a mother not take her son to heart?" ”

"That's right, now that Wang Junlin has saved Zhao'er's life, shouldn't parents be grateful to him? Since you don't like him, I don't reward him, but do you still have prejudices against him? ”

"The concubine knows." Empress Xiao lowered her head and said.

Yang Guang sighed and said: "If I had established Zhao'er as the crown prince at the beginning, and if Yin'er ascended the throne in the future, with his heart, he would have killed Zhao'er, and together with Zhao'er's grandson who I born, none of them would be left, which is of course related to Yin'er's character, but also because Zhao'er is the eldest son." On the contrary, I made Zhao'er the crown prince at the beginning, and with Zhao'er's leniency, after a hundred years, he would not kill his brother, and he would also make him a prince, and he would be glorious and rich for a lifetime. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Guang let out a long sigh and continued: "If I set up the eldest son, the second son can be blessed to the end of his life, and if I set up the second son, I will inevitably kill each other, which I never want to see, so I would rather let Zhao'er inherit the unification in the future." ”

Empress Xiao suddenly felt very tired, she admitted that Yang Guang was right, with the heart of Yang Yong, the king of Qi, if he won the throne, he would kill his brother.

Yang Guang finally turned his head, looked at Empress Xiao deeply, and said in a deep voice: "I don't want to make Xuan'er think that she still has a chance because of you, so as to assassinate Zhao'er again. ”

"Your Majesty's meaning and concubines understand." Empress Xiao said solemnly.

Yang Guang sighed and said: "Zhao'er is the eldest son, generous and benevolent, I believe that he will be the king of benevolence in the future, as for his body, I will tell the world in a moment, let the counties find famous doctors in the world, and let the states and counties offer the best elixir to recuperate for Zhao'er's body." ”

Empress Xiao hesitated for a moment and said: "But Wang Junlin is extremely vicious and his methods are extremely powerful, and the concubines are worried that he will make a move on Yan'er and let Yan'er die in a daze." ”

Yang Guang said: "The queen can rest assured, there will be another year at most, and after I have completely cleared the obstacles that hinder my great cause, I will release Wang Junlin, so that he will not return to the capital easily." ”

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